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Download or read book The Most Fearful Ordeal written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have for Civil War buffs, this book features the original "New York Times" coverage of the most tumultuous, bloody, and defining period in America's history. 50 photos. 6 maps.
Download or read book One Hundred Days written by Lukas Bärfuss and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Swiss aid worker David Hohl arrives in Rwanda in 1990, he wants to know what it feels like to make a difference.Instead, he finds himself among expats, living a life of postcolonial privilege and boredom, and he begins to suspect that the agency is more concerned with political expedience than improving lives. But are his own motives any more noble?When civil war breaks out and David goes into hiding, he is forced to examine his own relationship to the country he wants to help and to the cosmopolitan Rwandan woman he wants to possess. As the genocide rages over the course of one hundred desperate days, the clear line David has always drawn between idealism and complicity quickly begins to blur.
Download or read book The Terminal Game written by Jay Kolo and published by Jay Kolo. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a man who has a spiritual awakening in an airport terminal. Thirty-three year old Jason Richter, an alcoholic, is hopeless and spiritually bankrupt. Read what leads to his spiritual awakening and how his past and future will forever be changed.
Book Synopsis A Thousand Days by : Arthur M. SCHLESINGER, Jr.
Download or read book A Thousand Days written by Arthur M. SCHLESINGER, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My One Thousand Days Ordeal by : Cheong Ching
Download or read book My One Thousand Days Ordeal written by Cheong Ching and published by Straits Times Press Pte Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His book re-counts in detail the emotional turmoil he felt at being 'betrayed' by his desire to see China and Taiwan peacefully reunified, the tortuous circumstances under which he was compelled to write a 'confession' of his alleged crime, and his struggle to come to terms with what he--albeit unwittingly--brought upon himself. He decided to write it 'to contribute in a small way to wiping out the soil that produces such miscarriages of justice' in China, to make sure that he 'had not gone to jail for nothing'. For the international legions of human rights activists, Ching's Ordeal describes, in very ordinary terms, how the Chinese authorities--or any other undemocratic regime--use 'logic' and forms of mental torture to obtain 'confessions'. It shows up, without drama, the huge distance China needs to cover to become a country where the rule of law is not subject to politics.
Download or read book Liberationists written by Xun Yuezang and published by Pema Press. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human rights worker disappears while crossing the border from HK to China. Though she is presumed kidnapped by the Partystate, no trace of her can be found. With young daughter in tow, her husband takes up the search. Told from the husband's point of view, Liberationists is part love story, part detective novel, part meditation on the value of freedom, democracy and human rights. It depicts the relationship between a parent and young child in a time of crisis as well as the dire situation of those fighting for a better society in today's dystopian China where the world's most powerful dictatorship is intent on maintaining its monopoly on power. The early days of what would become the HK Umbrella Movement play a crucial role in the story's climax. Why push for political and social change at great personal risk, especially when efforts often appear futile? Liberationists examines the motives, logic and actions of people willing to endure hardship and persecution to realize their ideals.
Book Synopsis A Thousand Days by : Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)
Download or read book A Thousand Days written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1965 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Special Assistant to President Kennedy describes the historic events in which John F. Kennedy participated during his three years in the White House." --
Book Synopsis My Angel and Me (My Spirit Guide) by : Charlie R. Brown
Download or read book My Angel and Me (My Spirit Guide) written by Charlie R. Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Angel and Me is a quick-paced journey of ideas, wisdom and experiences from the real life of the author and his connection with the other side. The author, Charlie R. Brown, has been researching parapsychology for over five decades, and he presents a lifetime of spellbinding, factual psychic events in this book. Every word, every sentence, every page can and should come alive for the reader; and beyond that, it will make you think about how you live!
Book Synopsis Carmen Blacker - Collected Writings by : Carmen Blacker
Download or read book Carmen Blacker - Collected Writings written by Carmen Blacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.
Book Synopsis My First 1,000 Jumps by : Norm Heaton
Download or read book My First 1,000 Jumps written by Norm Heaton and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are holding the only comprehensive history of the early days of the sport of skydiving yet published. It is the story of not just one skydiver but the story of many, the true pioneers of the sport. Just as important this book includes a complete history of the national organization established for the express purpose of promoting sport parachuting. While this history is restricted to a short fifteen years (1961-1975), those years were the most productive, most far-reaching, and the most exciting for the fledgling idea of jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for the sheer joy of it all, eventually establishing the sport of skydiving as an integral part of the world of aviation sports. This book tells the story of those formative years with details of battles fought to maintain freedom of the skies for all parachutists when government and corporate interests made numerous attempts to severely restrict the right of skydivers to use our nation's airspace. This story is told by a man who dedicated his life to the advancement of the sport, serving for twelve years as the chief executive officer of the national organization for skydivers, the Parachute Club of America / US Parachute Association. The reader will embark on a most exciting journey, a journey not told before, continually laced with personal stories that will touch your heart, make you smile, and occasionally make you laugh. This book contains over 400 photographs and 1,500 names of people from around the world who participated in that wonderful and exhilarating sport called skydiving.
Book Synopsis Communicating Pain by : Stephanie de Montalk
Download or read book Communicating Pain written by Stephanie de Montalk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. Coupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.
Download or read book Wilson written by A. Scott Berg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Another deeply hued and character-rich biography to match his justly celebrated study of Lindbergh' Financial Times From Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author, A. Scott Berg comes the definitive – and revelatory – biography of one of the great American figures of modern times. One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson – the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President. This is not just Wilson the icon – but Wilson the man.
Book Synopsis A Hundred Days to Richmond by : Jim Leeke
Download or read book A Hundred Days to Richmond written by Jim Leeke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby and other feared Southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.
Book Synopsis Hayek: A Collaborative Biography by : Robert Leeson
Download or read book Hayek: A Collaborative Biography written by Robert Leeson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired ‘free’ market has adopted ‘The Slogan of Liberty’ - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed ‘knowledge’ - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have? Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as ‘Post-Doctoral Fellows’ and ‘Professors’? This volume examines the consequences of the ‘free’ market colonisation of economics – climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse
Book Synopsis Aristocratic Life in Medieval France by : John W. Baldwin
Download or read book Aristocratic Life in Medieval France written by John W. Baldwin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-03-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern historians have generally approached the study of medieval society through chronicles, charters, and other documents composed in Latin by members of the clergy. Although these records may be satisfactory for studying the affairs of ecclesiastics, kings, and high barons, they are inadequate for assessing the major preoccupations of the aristocracy—living extravagantly, fighting, making love, entertaining, eating and dressing ostentatiously, and, generally, earning the disapproval of the clergy. In Aristocratic Life in Medieval France, the respected medieval scholar John Baldwin undertakes a study of this segment of society using, for the first time in nearly a century, the vernacular romances written exclusively for the amusement of aristocratic audiences. Rather than attempting to encompass all of Middle Age Europe, this study selects two writers, Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, and their four romances. It focuses with depth and specificity on the discrete area of northern France during a precise period, 1190–1230. Since Jean and Gerbert framed their fictional stories with contemporary and realistic features that could be recognized by their audiences, their works provide a wealth of detail on aristocratic living. Employing such literary techniques as "reality effects" and "horizons of expectations," Baldwin successfully discerns the historical content in these romance narratives.
Book Synopsis A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4 by : Melvyn C. Goldstein
Download or read book A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4 written by Melvyn C. Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not possible to understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s, especially the events that occurred in 1957–59. The fourth volume of Melvyn C. Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, In the Eye of the Storm, provides new perspectives on Sino-Tibetan history during the period leading to the Tibetan Uprising of 1959. The volume also reassesses issues that have been widely misunderstood as well as stereotypes and misrepresentations in the popular realm and in academic literature (such as in Mao’s policies on Tibet). Volume 4 draws on important new Chinese government documents, published and unpublished memoirs, new biographies, and a large corpus of in-depth, specially collected political interviews to reexamine the events that produced the March 10th uprising and the demise of Tibet’s famous Buddhist civilization. The result is a heavily documented analysis that presents a nuanced and balanced account of the principal players and their policies during the critical final two years of Sino-Tibetan relations under the Seventeen-Point Agreement of 1951.
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